One Thousand Mustaches

The Walrus. The Van Dyke. The Handlebar. For something so simple, facial hair on a man's upper lip -- the mustache, or "Mo" -- is subject to infinite variations, limited only by the human imagination. Thankfully we have facial follicle fiend Allen Peterkin (The Bearded Gentleman) to provide an entertaining survey of the 'stache throughout history, culminating in its current renaissance.

May 25: On this day in 1938 Raymond Carver was born. Carver's poem "Luck," about a nine-year-old who wakes to an empty house and the leftovers of his parents' party, is all too autobiographical: "What luck, I thought. / Years later,…

Angry robots! Aren't they all? Well, not the line of fine science fiction and fantasy books that comes to readers under the rubric Angry Robot. In fact, their offerings…

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